From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Feb  3 10:27:29 2003
Subject: Re: debugging
From: "Albert F. Niessner" <Al dot Niessner at jpl dot nasa dot gov>
To: branganj <branganj at tcd dot ie>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: 03 Feb 2003 11:26:03 -0500


Easiest thing to do is to reconfigure, recompile, and reinstall octave
to get the debugging switch turned on. Before running 'configure' --
assuming you are using sh -- do the following:

export CFLAGS="-ggdb"
export CXXFLAGS="-ggdb"
export FFLAGS="-ggdb"

When you do your 'make all install' you should see the compiler using
the -ggdb switch for all of the source. As Johann Drexl suggested, use
ddd because it is much simpler to learn and use than the gdb command
line.

Al Niessner

On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 11:06, branganj wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to sieve through the source code for octave for my final year project.
> I'm not very good with gdb.  Can I use this? Like if octave is already 
> installed how do i use it? Should i compile it again using -g?????????
> What i really need to know from the debugger is where octave starts out?
> Which file reads in off the command line?  EG for the * operation?
> Thanks,
> Confused,
> Jill Brangan.
> 
> 
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